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General plumage, brownish gray; no white on wing coverts or tail 

 feathers. (This species belongs in Family Icteridae, but the bill is 

 somewhat Finch-like in appearance, and the bird might be looked for 

 under this section.) Molothrus ater (female). 



Cowbird. 

 See No. 224. 



Head, with crest; breast, grayish buff or light tawny; back, 

 olive gray, without streaks; rump and upper surface of tail, not 

 rufous brown. Cardinally cardinalis (female). 



Cardinal Grosbeak. Cardinal. 



See No. 273. 



Crown, brown, with white stripe in middle ; a black stripe on each 

 side of throat; under parts, soiled white; tail feathers, broadly tipped 

 with white; rump and upper surface of tail, not rufous brown. 



Chondestes grammacus. 

 Lark Sparrow. Lark Finch. 

 See No. 254. 



Rump and upper surface of tail feathers, rufous brown ; under parts, 

 white, more or less spotted or streaked with brown. Passerella iliaca. 



Fox Sparrow. 

 See No. 270. 



Entire head and back, brown (female) or black (male); belly, 



white; sides of body, bright, rufous brown. Pipilo erythrophthalmus. 



Towhee Bunting. 



See No. 271. 



Snow Bunting. 

 Summer Plumage. 



Under parts, white, often tinged with light brown on the breast ; 

 greater part of outer tail feathers, white ; a large white patch on wing ; 

 back rusty brown (not black) in winter. Plectrophenax nivalis. 



Snowflake. Snow Bunting. 

 See No. 244. 



